Microsoft has released a no-nonsense simple to use, free and downloadable tool – Microsoft Security Scanner – to check and cleanup virus infections (or suspected infections).
This tool is not intended as an antivirus, it is intended as a cleanup utility for infected computers or as a tool you can download and do a double-check to confirm you are not infected (say your installed antivirus is unable to detect a certain virus/malware, then you can double check using Microsoft Security Scanner).
You can download it free from here (note the download only works for 10 days, then you have to re-download an updated version, this is to ensure the virus detection patterns are always fully up to date);
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
A good thing to also do is to run Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool from time to time – this is done automatically as part of Windows Update, however this is only the ‘fast/quick’ scan – by starting the MRT.EXE manually you can do a FULL scan. The Malicious Software Removal Tool is installed on all windows machines and updated/maintained via Windows Updates.
to run it;
Btw; McAfee has a similar yet not so comprehensive utility called Stinger (also free download);
http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/stinger.aspx
Just found an alternative to www.dropbox.comcalled SugarSync, it offers a free version as with Dropbox and from what I can read with more space to begin with.
Comparisons made by various reviewers on the net seem to suggest that Dropbox is slightly easier to get started with, however pricing on SugarSync appear cheaper.
Had Dropbox been 1-3$ and not 10$ a month I had been a paying customer, but 10$ for 50gig is just too steap 🙁
Check out SugarSync here;
https://www.sugarsync.com/free/
a few oter alternatives here;
http://techpp.com/2010/07/05/dropbox-alternatives-sync-files-online/
And finally (note the price is per year not month);
http://emea.trendmicro.com/emea/products/personal/safesync-solution/